Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 23

Linne (JRF <freeman _at_ netcom.com>)

This small crater, surrounded by bright ejecta, was once the center
of a controversy: Numerous observers had reported changes in its
appearance. Close-up photographic views have not shown any evidence of
these claims.

Sulpicious Gallus (JRF <freeman _at_ netcom.com>)

An inconsequential crater with rilles to the northwest.

Rima Sulpicius Gallus (David North <d _at_ timocharis.com>)

Rima Sulpicius Gallus was in very odd illumination, just on the
terminator. Usually it appears dark and distinct, but I was lucky enough
to catch it when the light was reflecting precisely off one of the
interior walls, making it a bright gash in the portions that run north
south, transiting into a dark squiggle further south as it turns to the
east. Some interesting detail was also visible in the roughly parallel
foothills of the Montes Haemus; it looked almost as a study in light and
dark, or as if there were more than one rille present.

Rimae Menelaus (David North <d _at_ timocharis.com>)

The rest of Rimae Menelaus showed up for the party tonight; it's a
particularly fine and tangled rille complex leading toward the crater
Tacquet (which has a neat name so I had to mention it). In the moments
of best seeing the area reminded me of cracked adobe soil.